Irish people abroad who just won't shut up moaning about Ireland

daveyeh

I'm sick of reading online comments from Irish people who have moved abroad and just moan about Ireland.

"It's a ****hole"
"I hate that place"
"Thank god I left that miserable dump"
etc.
etc.

You didn't like living here, so you pissed off to start a new life. So, shut the **** up and get on with enjoying your new life you miserable arsehole.

Rant over.

cloud493

Irish people moaning? Goodness, don't tell me things like that, I just wont believe you. I'm so shocked my monocle has fallen out.

The Domonator

So, you're complaining about people complaining? :P

daveyeh

Yes! :mad:

Marsden

The ironing is delicious.

mikom

Ireland is lovely.
A lot of grubby pricks living here make it miserable for many folk though.

RonanP77

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I like getting away every now and then but my favourite bit of every trip I've ever been on is that first view of Ireland as you fly back in.

branie2

They really let us down

The One Who Knocks

If there's anything that annoys me more than people moaning about Ireland, it's people moaning about people moaning about Ireland. Actually no maybe it's just Ireland.

kneemos

Ireland is full of Irish.

daveyeh

The One Who Knocks wrote: »

If there's anything that annoys me more than people moaning about Ireland, it's people moaning about people moaning about Ireland. Actually no maybe it's just Ireland.

If you're annoyed, it's only a matter of time before you moan about it. No, wait...eh

daveyeh

kneemos wrote: »

Ireland is full of Irish.

Thanks for that

Micky Dolenz

I find it's the opposite. Many of my friends who live outside the country often view it with rose tinted glasses and my friends who still live there complain about paying for stuff every other first world country pays for,corrupt incompetent government and of course the weather.

endacl

Marsden wrote: »

The ironing is delicious.

No it's not. The ironing is a pain in the hoop.

daveyeh

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I find it's the opposite. Many of my friends who live outside the country often view it with rose tinted glasses and my friends who still live there complain about paying for stuff every other first world country pays for,corrupt incompetent government and of course the weather.

Yep, there's that sort too. Probably left years ago.

I find it's the recently departed whinging out about property tax or water or whatever. Why do you care?? YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE!!

kneemos

Have you ever met an Irish person?
Complaining is genetic.

Berserker

daveyeh wrote: »

I'm sick of reading online comments from Irish people who have moved abroad and just moan about Ireland.

I'm just a sick of listening to people here moaning about Ireland. The government are only looking after the rich people, we have a third world health service, water this and water that ......

From living abroad, I have always found that people look at Ireland through rose tinted glasses, being honest. Personally, I think they get a dose of reality when they move abroad and they have to pay their way.

Oranage2

I haven't been in Ireland in two years, amn't I deadly!

I am pie

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I find it's the opposite. Many of my friends who live outside the country often view it with rose tinted glasses and my friends who still live there complain about paying for stuff every other first world country pays for,corrupt incompetent government and of course the weather.

As above in my experience, generally people become more appreciative of how good a country it is when they leave.

Do you know many moaners abroad OP, or this an imagination thing?

daveyeh

Oranage2 wrote: »

I haven't been in Ireland in two years, amn't I deadly!

Need more information than this to accurately answer your deadliness question.

Berserker

I am pie wrote: »

As above in my experience, generally people become more appreciative of how good a country it is when they leave.

Do you know many moaners abroad OP, or this an imagination thing?

I nearly got attacked recently for telling people that it is a very easy and cheap place to live. Life in London, NY (Lower Manhattan) or Houston is a much harder than here.

To Elland Back

Ireland is a magnificent place. If it wasn't being run by such incompetent people, we would all have much more money and time to enjoy it to the full

AgileMyth

Don't particularly want to live in Ireland right now but I do think I'll go back eventually.

Its a grand spot.

daveyeh

I am pie wrote: »

Do you know many moaners abroad OP, or this an imagination thing?

I know 14 people (family/friends) that have moved abroad. More than half of them seem to spend most of their time on social networks bitching about this country. One starts and loads join in, ****ing hell lads, grow up and enjoy what you have!

Oranage2

daveyeh wrote: »

Need more information than this to accurately answer your deadliness question.

Well if I said the positives it would sound like I'm gloating.

I don't moan about Ireland, the nature is unrivaled, the meat and diary is spectacular. The rest is pretty **** though.

Teyla Emmagan

This is a huge bug bear of mine. I hate people who moan non stop about the country. I was doing a course last Saturday and there was a woman there who just spent the whole day talking about how **** everything is. The govt, the water, the schools, religion, the price of everything, they're all a pack of crooks etc etc. It is so draining to listen to. One girl (a primary school teacher) was talking about the art she does with the kids and even something positive and pleasant like that sent your woman off for another five minutes on the schools, and the fees, and how all the teachers are useless and the price of the books. I felt like hitting her over the head. Shut up! Just shut up!! Life can be hard enough at times without constant negativity! Can't stand those people.

daveyeh

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I felt like hitting her over the head. Shut up! Just shut up!! Life can be hard enough at times without constant negativity! Can't stand those people.

:pac::pac::pac:

That's it in a nutshell.

Areyouwell

Had to leave Ireland to pursue my education and profession. Came back over qualified and highly skilled for said profession. Barely two weeks in the job and I was told by a colleague that I will always be viewed as an outsider (This was in Dublin btw). The fact the everybody loved me, seemed to make me more of a threat to senior management. One of these managers had spent an internship several years earlier in the UK with me, where I had mentored and trained them. Now they were looking down their nose at me. I realised then that who you know, not what you know will never die in Ireland. It's too small, too parochial for that to ever change. Sadly I left Ireland again because of the professional small mindedness and cliques. And thankfully, I have now reached the pinnacle of my profession. I have been rewarded for my skill and ability. Rather than where I was from, or what my Father worked at. So nobody's going to tell me I have no right to moan about Ireland, especially since I was driven out of it and would still be there thanks to a shower of c**ts.

daveyeh

Wah wah wah

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I have exactly the opposite gripe: say something even slightlty cirtical about Ireland and you get jumped on.

"You don't like the weather? **** off so to somwehre hotter!" (I picture peope sitting in deckcharis and swimshorts on rainswept beaches)

"Public transport is grand! Best in Europe" (i.e. "We have cars - what would we need public transport for?")

VanishingActs

I'm temporarily living abroad and actually appreciating Ireland much more since I left! I really do think the Irish are incredibly friendly people. I'll be back in December and I imagine the Ireland I've built up in my head will fade away but I do miss it. Of course it rains where I am even more than it does in Ireland so the weather's not a factor for me.

I am pie

Weird, maybe we have a better class of expat down here. That must be it.

I'd still be there if the wife wasn't from here, probably.

hatrickpatrick

ireland as a country is great, the people are great, the craic is great, but we tolerate an unbelievable amount of bullsh!t from the establishment and there are a lot of countries where I can imagine after spending some time in, looking back and seeing how docile Irish people tend to be about standing up for ourselves might indeed give the place a bit of a nasty hue.

Linoge

Areyouwell wrote: »

Had to leave Ireland to pursue my education and profession. Came back over qualified and highly skilled for said profession. Barely two weeks in the job and I was told by a colleague that I will always be viewed as an outsider (This was in Dublin btw). The fact the everybody loved me, seemed to make me more of a threat to senior management. One of these managers had spent an internship several years earlier in the UK with me, where I had mentored and trained them. Now they were looking down their nose at me. I realised then that who you know, not what you know will never die in Ireland. It's too small, too parochial for that to ever change. Sadly I left Ireland again because of the professional small mindedness and cliques. And thankfully, I have now reached the pinnacle of my profession. I have been rewarded for my skill and ability. Rather than where I was from, or what my Father worked at. So nobody's going to tell me I have no right to moan about Ireland, especially since I was driven out of it and would still be there thanks to a shower of c**ts.

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

DEFTLEFTHAND

They should stop obsessing about where they're from and just get on with life.

Yogosan

Not me. I make sure to let them dirty foreigners know that Ireland is the best country in the enire world. I then continue to list all the reason why Ireland is better than whatever hell hole country I have the misfortune of setting foot in.

I actually did this recently to a girl in Spain! (She was Romanian) She got a good laugh out of it. She even gave me her email address, so I proceeded to send her even more reasons why Ireland is better! (Apart from Dublin, obviously)

--LOS--

So is being an annoyingly proud irish abroad any better?

conorh91

There's a guy in the politics forum, and I SwearTaGod, he consumes most of his time describing how shít Ireland is. I reckon he's in the US on some sort of extended J1. If you hate it so much, let it go, move on.

Areyouwell

daveyeh wrote: »

Wah wah wah

Linoge wrote: »

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

Ah bless, trying to feel better about yourselves. As much as I wanted to stay in Ireland, I probably should be grateful for the the thick, insular, small minded ****'s I used to work with. Only for them, I wouldn't have left and I wouldn't be as totally minted as I am today. I love my homeland, there's no more beautiful country in the world and I always visit family & friends 6-7 times a year. But it's the few inbred, insular types and their incestuous cliques that will always have a strangled hold on some professions.

John_Rambo

A lot of people forced to emigrate need to convince themselves and others they their new home is wonderful by bitching about home.

We all know the truth.

Sh1tbag OToole

cloud493 wrote: »

I'm so shocked my monocle has fallen out.

It fell into your brandy with an amusing 'plook' sound?

Buona Fortuna

RonanP77 wrote: »

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I like getting away every now and then but my favourite bit of every trip I've ever been on is that first view of Ireland as you fly back in.

Mine too

Sam Kade

daveyeh wrote: »

I'm sick of reading online comments from Irish people who have moved abroad and just moan about Ireland.

"It's a ****hole"
"I hate that place"
"Thank god I left that miserable dump"
etc.
etc.

You didn't like living here, so you pissed off to start a new life. So, shut the **** up and get on with enjoying your new life you miserable arsehole.

Rant over.

I can solve you problem, stop reading online comments from Irish people who have moved abroad

Buona Fortuna

Be a lovely little country if ya could only roofit

daveyeh

daveyeh wrote: »

Yep, there's that sort too. Probably left years ago.

I find it's the recently departed whinging out about property tax or water or whatever. Why do you care?? YOU LIVE SOMEWHERE ELSE!!

Maybe they are not directly affected but they care about their family and friends getting screwed over, i.e. YOU?

By actually being empathetic with their friends they get hostility and negativity in return

Surround yourself with positive people. You can easily defriend these people on Facebook and stop reading all the negativity.

Last_Minute

I take up the nationality of the country i am currently in. For example i was in France not so long ago so i considered myself French for a few weeks. All my Facebook status updates were in French, all my texts were in French etc etc.

carlmango11

Areyouwell wrote: »

Had to leave Ireland to pursue my education and profession. Came back over qualified and highly skilled for said profession. Barely two weeks in the job and I was told by a colleague that I will always be viewed as an outsider (This was in Dublin btw). The fact the everybody loved me, seemed to make me more of a threat to senior management. One of these managers had spent an internship several years earlier in the UK with me, where I had mentored and trained them. Now they were looking down their nose at me. I realised then that who you know, not what you know will never die in Ireland. It's too small, too parochial for that to ever change. Sadly I left Ireland again because of the professional small mindedness and cliques. And thankfully, I have now reached the pinnacle of my profession. I have been rewarded for my skill and ability. Rather than where I was from, or what my Father worked at. So nobody's going to tell me I have no right to moan about Ireland, especially since I was driven out of it and would still be there thanks to a shower of c**ts.

Areyouwell wrote: »

Ah bless, trying to feel better about yourselves. As much as I wanted to stay in Ireland, I probably should be grateful for the the thick, insular, small minded ****'s I used to work with. Only for them, I wouldn't have left and I wouldn't be as totally minted as I am today. I love my homeland, there's no more beautiful country in the world and I always visit family & friends 6-7 times a year. But it's the few inbred, insular types and their incestuous cliques that will always have a strangled hold on some professions.

If I had to guess I would say there were others factors at play here... Perhaps your personality?

Electric Sheep

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I find it's the opposite. Many of my friends who live outside the country often view it with rose tinted glasses and my friends who still live there complain about paying for stuff every other first world country pays for,corrupt incompetent government and of course the weather.

So true. Whinging about the water charge and property tax, both of which are less than 1/10 what people pay in other places.

carlmango11

Last_Minute wrote: »

I take up the nationality of the country i am currently in. For example i was in France not so long ago so i considered myself French for a few weeks. All my Facebook status updates were in French, all my texts were in French etc etc.

Could be many reasons for that:

• Practice
• Social circle speaks French
• Enthusiasm about new culture

TheBeardedLady

Biggest moaners of Ireland that I've come across still live at home. I would definitely be one of those emigrants with rose-tinted glasses on and generally only have positive things to say about the country to people here but I don't think I'm exempt from complaining about aspects of my country because I live abroad though. Chronic moaning is another thing entirely and I've met a few of those abroad. Insufferable people generally.